Backing up of heterogeneous terminal user information in (internet protocol) IP terminal

• US 7,899,790 B2
• Filed: 02/21/2008
• Issued: 03/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Yong-Sung, Park, Young-June
• Primary Examiner(s): Corrielus; Jean M
• Application Number:
  US12/071,530
• Publication Number:
  US 20080201387A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,104 Days
• Field of Search: 707/610, 707/611, 707/640, 707/655, 707/656
• US Class Current: 707/640
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4557 Directories for hybrid networks, e.g. including telephone numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes

Abstract

An apparatus to back up heterogeneous terminal user information in an IP terminal includes a terminal connection interface, a temporary synchronization storage unit, a synchronization controller, and a data converter. The terminal connection interface connects to a heterogeneous terminal. In the apparatus and its method, the temporary synchronization storage unit temporarily stores phone number information of the heterogeneous terminal. Upon connecting to the heterogeneous terminal, the synchronization controller sets synchronization with the heterogeneous terminal and stores phone number information of the heterogeneous terminal. The data converter performs data conversion between the stored phone number information of the heterogeneous terminal and stored phone number information of the IP terminal.

Claims

1. An apparatus to back up heterogeneous terminal user information in an Internet Protocol (IP) terminal, the apparatus comprising:

a terminal connection interface to connect to a heterogeneous terminal;

a temporary synchronization storage unit to temporarily store phone number information of the heterogeneous terminal;

a synchronization controller to set synchronization with the heterogeneous terminal and to concurrently store the phone number information of the connected heterogeneous terminal in the temporary synchronization storage unit, in response to the heterogeneous terminal connecting to the terminal connection interface; and

a data converter to perform data conversion between the phone number information of the heterogeneous terminal stored in the temporary synchronization storage unit and phone number information of the IP terminal, the phone number information of the IP terminal being stored in a data storage unit,

wherein, in the absence of phone number information for conversion, the data converter converts data into a null value, and

wherein the data converter applies the null value to a smaller sized number corresponding to the phone number information of the heterogeneous terminal for conversion.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a user interface to display the phone number information stored in the temporary synchronization storage unit or the data storage unit for a user and to allow the user to select the displayed phone number information of the heterogeneous terminal.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the data converter converts a database format of phone number information selected through the user interface and updates the temporary synchronization storage unit by the converted phone number information.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a database format storage unit to store database format information of the IP terminal and at least one heterogeneous terminal.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the data converter identifies a database format of the heterogeneous terminal stored in the database format storage unit using information of the heterogeneous terminal that is, upon synchronization, detected by the synchronization controller, and then compares the identified database format with the database format of the IP terminal, and then performs data conversion.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the heterogeneous terminal comprises one of an IP terminal, a mobile communication terminal, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) terminal, and a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) terminal.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the terminal connection interface comprises one of an infrared communication protocol, a wired/wireless IP protocol, and a Host Signal Processing (HSP) protocol.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the synchronization controller temporarily stores each of phone number information of one or more heterogeneous terminals in the temporary synchronization storage unit, in response to the terminal connecting interface connecting with the one or more heterogeneous terminals concurrently or respectively.

9. A method to back up heterogeneous terminal user information in a selective synchronization method of an Internet Protocol (IP) terminal, the method comprising:

connecting and synchronizing with a heterogeneous terminal;

temporarily storing phone number information of the synchronized heterogeneous terminal;

converting a database format of phone number information stored in a data storage unit and updating the temporarily stored phone number information by the converted database format; and

synchronizing and transmitting the temporarily stored phone number information to the heterogeneous terminal,

wherein the converting and updating comprises converting data into a null value in the absence of phone number information for conversion and applying the null value to a smaller sized number corresponding to phone number information of the heterogeneous terminal for conversion.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising converting a database format of the temporarily stored phone number information of the heterogeneous terminal and storing the converted database format in the data storage unit.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein the converting of the database format and updating of the temporarily stored phone number information comprises:

displaying phone number information stored in the temporary synchronization storage unit or the data storage unit for a user; and

prompting the user to select the displayed phone number information of the heterogeneous terminal.

12. The method according to claim 9, wherein connecting and synchronizing with the heterogeneous terminal comprises:

identifying database format of the heterogeneous terminal stored in a database format storage unit, using information of the heterogeneous terminal that is detected through the database format storage unit storing database format information of an IP terminal and at least one heterogeneous terminal.

13. The method according to claim 9, wherein the heterogeneous terminal comprises one of an IP terminal, a mobile communication terminal, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) terminal, and a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) terminal.

14. The method according to claim 10, wherein a method of connection to the heterogeneous terminal comprises one of an infrared communication protocol, a wired/wireless IP protocol, and a Host Signal Processing (HSP) protocol.